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Thanks for posting that Mike, I might give that a try one day when the Mrs ain’t about. I wonder what ever happened to Arpie/Roberta? She was on another group as well that folded a few years ago, was a damn good fisherwoman and a wealth of knowledge.

I’ve never had success freezing string weed, having it come out smelly and falling apart far too easy. I’ve read elsewhere that others have done it successfully though. Some spread it out thinly on half a dozen sheets of newspaper and roll it up like a Swiss roll, then store it in the vegetable crisper of the fridge to extend it’s life, though the wife may not approve. If not in the fridge, leave it in a cool spot, like the concrete floor of the garage and it should last 2-3 weeks.

No apology required at all Waza, in fact I’ve been in the same boat myself for quite some time. Your explanation on the climbing technique makes perfect sense now and thanks for the detailed answer.

Great vid, I can watch this sort thing all day long. @wazatherfisherman why do they use that 2 handed rope system at The Mattens for the climb in and out? I assume there must be decent footing holes for that to be efficient. In all the cliff fishing I’ve done over the years I’ve only ever used a single rope.

Blackfishermen are a fairly traditional lot and other groups that I’m on that are more luderick specific show many of the guys from around your area are from families that have fished the locations you mention for generations, so hopefully the future is in good hands in that regard. Only a couple of days ago I was thinking about the river I grew up on and how its funny that most of the popular luderick spots that were fished when I was a kid are not fished at all these days. They still hold fish and plenty of them, I just have no idea why they fell out of popularity.

Shame it was a tough weekend fish wise @Bennyg78 but a couple of nice fish on day 1 was a pleasing result. Bonito Point/One Tree Bay usually fishes okay along the western side, so the fish might have been shut down with the approaching southerly. Great report and better luck next comp.

I’ve only done it this way with string weed @Burger and kept it alive and growing for over 12 months. I don’t bother with keeping cabbage at home as the stuff is so plentiful down here, but have seen reports of guys doing it elsewhere successfully using the same technique.

Keep it in a container with water collected from the same area where the weed is collected. Run an aerator in it every 3rd day for about an hour and if water evaporates and needs topping up, do so with distilled freshwater or rain/tank water. Leave it outside in a bright spot where it can get roughly 2 hours of sun per day, but be careful it doesn’t get too hot at this time of year.

Nice going Mike, great to see you have success with the FFT popper, but if bream will take one of those Saikoro Dice, they’ll take anything haha. Seriously though, bream are like cats and when all else fails, often curiosity is their downfall. Bugger about the wasps, though it could’ve been worse. It reminded me of a story about a guy that was shaking a tree to get his bass lure back, when he was “crash tackled” from above by a diamond python and fell out of the boat.

That’s nuts mate!!! Congrats on an awesome catch and release.

89cm is a thumper of a salmon, though shame about the rod. Before you go out and replace the Seabass with another, take a look at a Daiwa Overthere as well. They’re a very nice rod and great value for money.

Could well be just getting used to the different action in the rod and needing to strike a little harder to set the hook well with the softer taper. All my blackfish rods are medium to slow taper, but when either using braid or mono the strike and fighting style are radically different. Could have possibly just been the fish on the day as well. Anyway, great to hear the boiling water technique held up and you got a nice feed with the new bargain and the retro Steelite.

That’s good news @Koalaboi and something to keep in the memory banks for the future. Thanks for sharing. I’ve often used boiling water in a similar fashion for straightening soft plastics that came bent, out of the packet.

That’s a pearler of a bass. Great to see Pejar bounce back so well after being almost empty and nothing but a mud puddle a couple of droughts ago.

If the bend is located along the backbone of the blank and the guides are aligned with the backbone, it could actually be a bonus and best left alone. Back in the 1980’s Butterworth purposely made bent tip rods, to lessen the tendency of line wrapping around the tip, particularly when night fishing and they fetch huge money these days.

Nice way to spend a couple of days, kicking back on the sand and pulling a few fish. Juvenile jew numbers look promising for the future which is great to see.

My 2c on this is there isn’t one pro boat on the east coast, long line or otherwise that doesn’t hang some sort of bright light over the side when “baiting up” at night, chasing squid, slimies, yakkas or whatever, so there must be something in it. I spent a bit of time on a pro-kingfish boat many years ago. They’d pull up in Jervis Bay, hang the lights over in quite deep water and within minutes have all sorts of fascinating critters in the beam, including squid, crabs and all types of baitfish. It’s worth a go if you’re willing to go to the trouble I’d say. It seems to kickstart the food chain.

I had friend that used to cut skirt steak into worm size strips and do very well on bream in around the oyster racks.

Banishing all soft plastics sounds like a could get expensive Mike. Small fish are better than no fish and still a great way to let off some steam. That’s a cool little brag mat you have there, looks retractable.

It’s not uncommon to come across eastern grey kangaroos swimming in St Georges Basin. A handful I’ve come across have been well over a kilometer from land and in those cases I’ve kept my distance to prevent them panicking, but made sure they’ve reached land. They appear to be quite competent swimmers. My theory there is that dogs, both wild and domestic, have chased them into the water.

Perhaps google BFS baitcast rods and have a bit of a search. I got my 7 foot, 1-3kg Majorcraft Volkey quite a few years ago now and had to look on Japanese websites to find something suitable. If you don’t feel comfortable buying from overseas and don’t mind the outlay, you can always go custom and get a nice rod built on a quality, spin blank.

That’s awesome mate. Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself out there. It’s a special place.

School’s back Mike and looks like you found the kindy kids LOL. I don’t know about tidal areas, but in the non tidal lake like where I fish, I’ll only ever get small ones on surface lures in glassy conditions. The big fish don’t show until the white caps do.

Good on you for helping out the poor little fella. The strangest thing I ever saw a couple of kangaroos do one morning was hop down onto the edge of the water where both ‘roos got absolutely flogged in the shorebreak, rolled and washed up onto sand, only to get up and repeat the process several times before hopping up straight past me, over the dunes and off into the bush. All I can think of is they were getting rid of ticks, leeches or some other parasite and in all my years, that was the only time I’ve seen anything like it.

Great pic @Birdy Currarong sure has changed over the years that’s for sure. We used to climb through Gosengs Hole and the down a crack in the rocks to fish the ledge between Big and Little Beecroft. Sadly the buddy I used to fish that ledge with died far too young there in a cliff fall.